Lady Susan by Jane Austen, Fiction, Classics - Austen, Jane
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Although the theme, together with the focus on character study and moral issues, is close to Austen's published work (Sense and Sensibility was also originally written in the epistolary form), its outlook is very different, and the heroine has few parallels in 19th-century literature. My Dear Brother, -- I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite convenient to you and Mrs. Vernon to receive me at present, I shall hope within a few days to be introduced to a sister…mehr

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Although the theme, together with the focus on character study and moral issues, is close to Austen's published work (Sense and Sensibility was also originally written in the epistolary form), its outlook is very different, and the heroine has few parallels in 19th-century literature. My Dear Brother, -- I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite convenient to you and Mrs. Vernon to receive me at present, I shall hope within a few days to be introduced to a sister whom I have so long desired to be acquainted with. My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay, but their hospitable and cheerful dispositions lead them too much into society for my present situation and state of mind; and I impatiently look forward to the hour when I shall be admitted into Your delightful retirement. I long to be made known to your dear little children, in whose hearts I shall be very eager to secure an interest. I shall soon have need for all my fortitude, as I am on the point of separation from my own daughter. . . .
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Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist. She wrote many books of romantic fiction about the gentry. Her works made her one of the most famous and beloved writers in English literature. She is one of the great masters of the English novel. Austen's works criticized sentimental novels in the late 18th century, and are part of the change to nineteenth- realism. She wrote about typical people in everyday life. This gave the English novel its first distinctly modern character. Austen's stories are often comic, but they also show how women depended on marriage for social standing and economic security. Her works are also about moral problems. Jane Austen was very modest about her own genius. She once famously described her work as "the little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory, on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labor." She had been working on a new novel, Sanditon, but she died before she could finish it. She is now a well known great writer.
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Süddeutsche Zeitung | Besprechung von 11.01.2017

NEUE TASCHENBÜCHER
„Lady Susan“
von Jane Austen
Wer ist nun eigentlich schuld, wenn eine Intrige erfolgreich ist, die Intrigantin oder das Opfer? Dieser kleine „Roman in Briefen“, den Jane Austen mit zwanzig schrieb und nie zur Veröffentlichung bestimmte, macht vom ersten Satz an deutlich, dass die eigentliche Frage ist, wer das gesellschaftliche Doppelspiel am besten beherrscht und wie lustvoll er das tut: „Mein lieber Bruder“, schreibt Lady Susan an Mr. Vernon, „länger kann ich mir nicht das Vergnügen versagen, Deiner bei unserem letzten Abschied ausgesprochenen Einladung Folge zu leisten und einige Wochen bei Euch in Churchill zu verbringen.“ Ja, Lady Susan sucht ein Unterkommen, einen neuen Mann, einen für ihre Tochter, sie reißt dafür Ehen auseinander und treibt junge Männer zur Verzweiflung. Der Film, den der Amerikaner Whit Stillman nach dem Roman drehte, ist großartig, aber den Windungen von Austens eleganter Ironie im Buch sollte man sich nicht versagen. Einen Verlierer gibt es am Ende: „Zum großen Leidwesen der Postfinanzverwaltung konnte dieser Briefwechsel nicht weiter fortgesetzt werden, da einige der Beteiligten sich persönlich trafen und die Wege der anderen sich trennten.“ FRITZ GÖTTLER
Jane Austen: Lady
Susan. Ein Roman in Briefen. Aus dem Englischen von Angelika Beck. Insel Verlag,
Frankfurt/Main 2016.
95 Seiten, 8 Euro.
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